class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # Liberate Your Time: Accelerate With R ] .subtitle[ ## Highlights and Examples ] .author[ ### Thomas Sharpe,
thomassharpe@isu.edu
] .date[ ### AIR Forum: June 2023 ] --- # So Many Project Ideas, Not Enough Time! -- .pull-left[ Fancy Visualizations (gganimate)  ] -- .pull-right[ Fancy Machine Learning (lots of R packages):  ] -- <b> It can be quite hard to find the time to explore and enhance </b> --- # Objective ## Scope - Demonstrate a few examples of leveraging a tool like R to speed up processes. -- - Highlight key R packages and brief overview of the code flow. -- - Spur curiosity and ideas. -- - If you think, "Hey, I can do that better, or I might tweak that a bit." That's Great! -- ## Overview - Getting Data - Wrangling Data - Text File Creation - Excel File Creation - Multiple HTML/PDF Files Creation - Discussion and Q&A --- # College of Southern Idaho (CSI) ## Analytics and Institutional Research (AIR) Team - FTE: 2.5 to 3.0 - Scope: Decision support, business intelligence, data-related compliance. Teamwork with IT on data governance. -- ## Implemented Software - Jenzabar EX ERP / SIS - Microsoft SQL Server - No Enterprise Data Warehouse - Power BI <b> These solutions should be agnostic to the software used at most institutions </b> --- # Live Coding Session  --- # Notes -- ## Limitations - Reporting requirement changes. - Business process changes. - Software changes. -- ## Outcomes This work has allowed for... (team effort big time!!!) - Implementation of fairly wide-spread business intelligence usage -- - Promptly keeping up with new requirements (e.g. NWCCU disaggregation) https://www.csi.edu/institutional-effectiveness/institutional-research/data-at-a-glance/default.aspx -- - Predictive analytics and implementation with stakeholders. -- - Beginning of data literacy training. -- - Improving institution-wide data documentation. --- # Conclusion <b> See conference material for what we worked through together.</b> -- <figure class="video_container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TOUrLn1FFCA?start=55&end=71" style="width:100%; height:450px; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"> </iframe> </figure> --- # Discussion and Q&A